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Blockchain

4 Blockchain Macro-Trends: Where to Place Your Bets

The challenges (and opportunities) ahead for enterprise applications of distributed ledger tech.

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Banking trends

The 11 FinTech and Banking Trends You Need to Follow

The arrival of a new year is often a time for reflection and an opportunity to look ahead. In design it’s no different.

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Banking

The Death of Omnichannel Banking

Lately I’ve noticed a few banks and fintechs wanting to “get started designing screens right away”. It seems great, but building the wrong thing is worse than building nothing at all.

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APIs

FinTech Legend Leda Glyptis: If You Choose Who You Are, What You Do Will Follow

Over the past eight years, as a fintech founder who happens to be gay, I’ve met with 100+ corporate and institutional investors around the world.

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AI

Xero: Giving 800,000 Business Owners Their Lives Back

Gary Turner is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Xero, which Forbes described as the “World’s Most Innovative Growth Company.” Xero provides small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs or SMEs) with ‘beautiful’ online accounting software. Gary helped take Xero from a 3-person startup to a company that will have £150 million in revenue this year.

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Banking

Swish: 3 Takeaways for Every Bank

How do we stay ahead of fraud and financial crime without compromising the speed, ease, and trust that make instant payments so compelling? In this article, Mastercard's Bryan Sharkey explores it all.

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Banking

Digital Wealth Management: It’s All about the Offense

When people start explaining how technology can be used to modernise financial services their language instantly becomes fraught with acronyms, buzzwords, and idioms that can make little sense to those both inside, and especially, outside the industry.We have a hunch sometimes people do this to appear smart but we need to do more research!

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Culture

‘Nicest Guy in Fintech’ on 'Golden Age of Finance'

Sam Maule, Director of Digital & Fintech at NTT DATA Americas, talks to us about how a kid from Detroit became a fintech leader, his new podcast, femtech, and Silicon Valley’s rude awakening.

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11:FS Pulse

Going Native: Force Touch, Siri, and Messages Payments

Goldman Sachs broke the fintechnet this week when it launched its developer portal, intentionally allowing companies to ‘embed finance’ within their organisation using their Banking as a Service (BaaS) offering. Hari Moorthy, Goldman’s Global Head of Transaction Banking, referred to it as “the financial cloud for corporates.” Cue a flurry of emails inside every large bank from CEOs wondering how seriously they should take this. Take it seriously. Take it very seriously.

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Blockchain

It’s Blockchain, Not Bitcoin, That’s Relevant to Finance

Let’s start by calling Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) what it is - debt. Debt, of course, has many faces. But ‘credit, pay in instalments, pay nothing today, etc.’ are all just debt. This is taken from our Unfiltered newsletter. Subscribe now for a no BS, uncensored analysis of fintech news and hot topics delivered to your inbox each fortnight.

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Financial inclusion

Gates Foundation Interview - What Banks Can Learn from the Frontline of Financial Inclusion

Over the past twelve months, we’ve been seriously busy here at 11:FS. Now we’re announcing arguably the most exciting project we’ve ever taken on.

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Banking

"My Bank Already Has An App!"

That’s what 11:FS bank building guru Jason hears when he tells people that he’s just spent the last two years building a new digital bank, and they’re right!

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Blockchain

Top 10 Things To Know About Blockchain This Week

The Pulse team spends their time trawling through the world of banks and fintech apps, sorting the good from the bad so you don’t have to.

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Blockchain

Why Should a Central Bank Issue a Digital Currency?

In this blog post Simon Taylor explores the concept of a Central Bank Digital Currency and why you would want a DLT (or “Blockchain”) like architecture for such a system.

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Banking

BaaP (Banking as a Platform) Part 2 - How could banks develop their platform levers?

If you missed Part 1 of this 2 part piece then you can catch it here and catch up with the rest of the class: BaaP (Banking as a Platform) Part 1 – Why haven’t we seen a banking platform play?

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Blockchain Insider

96. Like FUD off a duck's back

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Project Libra, regulators ready Ethereum future approval and Bitfinex and Tether continued…

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Fintech Insider

319. News: I'm sorry, banks

David and Simon are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including, central banks join the Extinction revolution, Amazon takes on India and how to make your own wearables.

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Fintech Insider

318. Interviews: Innovate Finance Global Summit

We went to the Innovate Finance Global Summit to find out what regulators both home and abroad are expecting to happen in fintech over the next year and much more.

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Blockchain Insider

95. Curated scavenger hunts

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Banking culture hinders Blockchain adoption, CryptoKicks coming soon to a Nike store near you and finally, chickens on a blockchain.

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Insurtech Insider

39. Agriculture and Commodities Insurance

Sarah and Nigel are joined by some fantastic guests to talk about agricultural commodities insurance and the volatility that goes along with it.

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Fintech Insider

317. News: Nettles and dock leaves

David and Simon are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days, including Paris tries to come for London’s fintech crown, Robin hood applies for a banking charter as T-Mobile tries to get back into banking and Germans hold more gold than Fort Knox.

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Fintech Insider

316. Insights: Customer infantstructure

Ross and Adam are joined by some great guests to talk about financial literacy in children, and the brewing world of innovation in pocket money apps.

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Blockchain Insider

94. Binance gets Dex’y

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Big French Bank does a thing, a very interesting thing, Binance gets Dex’y and Serena Williams invests in Coinbase.

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Fintech Insider

315. News: Tech for Tech’s Sake

Sarah and Simon are joined by Freddy Kelly, Ben Gleisner and Simon Vans-Colina to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including: US lenders prepare for a recession; Halifax gets slammed for looking a little too like Monzo and Starling in their rebrand and Facebook call time on UK P2P payments.

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Fintech Insider

314. Insights: Strong Customer Authentication

Sarah sits down with an amazing roundtable of guests to dig into Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) and what it means for the payments space and the financial ecosystem.

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Blockchain Insider

93. No such thing as a private blockchain

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: France creates a regulatory framework for tokens, the SEC might let Blockstack be and Banks abandon XRP…….oh nooooo

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Insurtech Insider

38. News: a Slice of AI

Sarah's joined by a couple of great guests this week to talk about the most interesting stories happening in insurtech over the past couple of weeks.

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Fintech Insider

313. News: Copy/paste product

Jason and Adam are joined by some great guests to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the last 7 days. Including: Standard Chartered’s $1bn fine, London looks set to take the fintech unicorn crown from San Francisco nd your cat could be the next voice of the ‘miaowing’ debit card.

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Fintech Insider

312. Insights: Live! The future of money

We're in NYC for New York Fintech Week! Sam is joined by some great guests to talk about the future of money and the UK as a leader in the space.

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Blockchain Insider

92. The richest man in the world

We. Are. Here. Today we bring you: Bank stablecoins are coming, Big banks back new international blockchain alliance and how a guy called Colin Platt became the richest person in the world…

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11:FS Pulse

Banks are losing the loyalty game | 11:FS Explores

Hey, banks! This might sting a bit. You’re getting loyalty all wrong - and it’s costing you customers. But all is not lost!

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11:FS Pulse

3 ways AI is shaking up UX in financial services | 11:FS Explores

The entire world is buzzing about AI, and that ain't changing anytime soon. But as AI becomes more integrated into our daily lives, what impact will it have on financial services and how people interact with them?

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Decoding

What are fintechs? - Decoding: Banks

Ever wanted to know what’s going on behind the scenes every time we make a payment?

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Decoding

How does banking regulation work? - Decoding: Banks

Regulation is essential. It stops banks from going bust or behaving badly.

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Decoding

How has software evolution influenced banking? - Decoding: Banks

The invention of the computer revolutionised banking in the 1950s.

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Lending

How does lending work? - Decoding: Banks

Lending has been around for thousands of years and is one of the cornerstones of banking.

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Decoding

How can traditional banks win on the banking battlefield? - Decoding: Banks

They're down, but they're not certainly not out.

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Decoding

How do card networks operate? - Decoding: Banks

Mastercard and Visa are the two biggest credit card networks in the world.

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Decoding

How has the banking battlefield evolved? - Decoding: Banks

We kick off our Decoding: Banks series with a look at the banking landscape today and how we got here.

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fintech Insider

Insights: The future of Revolut with UKCEO Francesca Carlesi

The UK banking battlefield has never been more competitive. Customers expectfinancial apps that are personalised, seamless, and that genuinely make a differenc...

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fintech Insider

Insights: The future of Revolut with UKCEO Francesca Carlesi

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fintech Insider

Insights: The future of Revolut with UKCEO Francesca Carlesi

The UK banking battlefield has never been more competitive. Customers expectfinancial apps that are personalised, seamless, and that genuinely make a differenc...

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fintech Insider

Insights: The future of Revolut with UKCEO Francesca Carlesi

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fintech Insider

Insights: The future of Revolut with UKCEO Francesca Carlesi

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